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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Cliven Bundy Is Leaving The Republican Party --Or did Republicans leave him

May 28, 2014 BLM , Cliven Bundy 0 Comments
Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy
By Morgan Whitaker, May 27, 2014, Msnbc.com

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.

Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.

“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.

Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.

“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.

“The question is, are they slaves the way they are, where they live as slaves to the charity and government-subsidized homes, and are they slaves when their daughters are having abortions and their sons are in the prisons?” Bundy said in the off-the-cuff comments first reported by theNew York Times.

“I am very quick in calling American citizens ‘patriots,’” one-time Bundy-supporter and Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller said in an interview after the remarks surfaced. “Maybe in this case, too quick.”

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Friday, April 25, 2014

Bundy Press Release: 'We are trading one form of slavery for another'

April 25, 2014 BLM , Bureau of Land Management 2 Comments
Cliven Bundy / Source:  www.newsone.com

BUNDY RANGE WAR (PRESS RELEASE FROM CLIVEN BUNDY)


Apr. 25, 2014, Grabien.com

We are trading one form of slavery for another.

What I am saying is that all we Americans are trading one form of slavery for another. All of us are in some measure slaves of the federal government. Through their oppressive tactics of telling the ranchers how many cows they can have on their land, and making that number too low to support a ranch, the BLM has driven every rancher in Clark County off the land, except me. The IRS keeps the people of America in fear, and makes us all work about a third or a half of the year before we have earned enough to pay their taxes. This is nothing but slavery from January through May. The NSA spies on us and collects our private phone calls and emails. And the government dole which many people in America are on, and have been for much of their lives, is dehumanizing and degrading. It takes away incentive to work and self respect. Eventually a person on the dole becomes a ward of the government, because his only source of income is a dole from the government. Once the government has you in that position, you are its slave.

I am trying to keep Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream alive. He was praying for the day when he and his people would be free, and he could say I’m free, free at last, thank God I’m free at last! But all of us here America, no matter our race, are having our freedom eroded and destroyed by the federal government because of its heavy handed tactics. The BLM, the IRS, the NSA--all of the federal agencies are destroying our freedom. I am standing up against their bad and unconstitutional laws, just like Rosa Parks did when she refused to sit in the back of the bus. She started a revolution in America, the civil rights movement, which freed the black people from much of the oppression they were suffering. I'm saying Martin Luther King's dream was not that Rosa could take her rightful seat in the front of the bus, but his dream was that she could take any seat on the bus and I would be honored to sit beside her. I am doing the same thing Rosa Parks did--I am standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us and destroy our freedom. Just like the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, we are saying no to an oppressive government which considers us to be slaves rather than free men.

I invite all people in America to join in our peaceful revolution to regain our freedom. That is how America was started, and we need to keep that tradition alive.

Cliven D. Bundy

Source:  www.grabien.com

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Saturday, April 19, 2014

United States of SWAT? Military-style Units From Government Agencies Are Wreaking Havoc On Non-Violent Citizens

April 19, 2014 BLM , Bundy Ranch Stand-Off 0 Comments
By John Fund, Apr. 18, 2014, National Review

Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, a lot of Americans were surprised to see TV images of an armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary wing of the BLM deployed around Bundy’s ranch.

They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.

“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

The proliferation of paramilitary federal SWAT teams inevitably brings abuses that have nothing to do with either drugs or terrorism. Many of the raids they conduct are against harmless, often innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dana Loesch: The Real Story Behind Bundy Ranch

April 15, 2014 BLM , Bureau of Land Management 1 Comments
Cliven Bundy
Source:  www.danaloeschradio.com
By Dana Loesch, Apr. 11, 2014, Danaloeschradio.com

By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.

A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land. The tortoise wasn’t of concern when Harry Reid worked BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore. Whittemore was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Senator Reid. Reid’s former senior adviser is now the head of BLM. Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests. BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor.  

BLM has also tried to argue that the rules have changed, long after Bundy claims he secured rights and paid his dues to Clark County, Nevada. BLM says they supersede whatever agreement Bundy had prior; they demanded that he reduce his living, his thousand-some-odd head of cattle down to a tiny herd of 150. It’s easy for the government to grant itself powers of overreach, but it doesn’t make it right. Many bad things are done in the name of unjust laws. Just look at Obamacare. This heavy-handed tactic has run the other ranchers from the area and now Bundy is the last one. He’s the last one because he stood up to the federal government.

So why does BLM want to run Bundy off this land and is Reid connected?

Read the full story:  www.danaloeschradio.com


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